Apple: BlueFin Sees ‘A6′ Chip in Next iPad, ‘A5X’ in iPhone 5

By Tiernan Ray

The folks at boutique firm BlueFin Research Partners this morning opine that Samsung Electronics‘s (005930KS) is going to be ready by September to produce an “A6” processor for Apple (AAPL) for use in the next iPad at Samsung’s Austin, Texas facility.

The firm draws its conclusions based on conversations with “key semi material suppliers,” who say that Samsung is nearing completion of an upgrade of the Austin facility to 28-nanometer chip production.

Because that won’t be ready until the September, and because the iPhone 5 is expected to ship in September or October, “we think it is likely that it [the iPhone 5] will incorporate the same A5X processor with quad core graphics as the recently released iPad, rather than the 28 nm A6 processor. The A6 applications processor is likely slated for the next generation iPad in early 2013.”

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MAY 31, 2012 11:05 A.M.

Anonymous wrote:

apple pumper

MAY 31, 2012 11:11 A.M.

pump or dump wrote:

apple's iAnything are the biggest ripoff products
their pumpers are even more pathetic

MAY 31, 2012 11:15 A.M.

tim cook wrote:

apple smells!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MAY 31, 2012 11:24 A.M.

Whatever wrote:

Yea, smells like money, iHaters......

MAY 31, 2012 12:10 P.M.

Macrimony wrote:

The Droidtards will be laughing their heads off if the next iPhone only has a dual-core processor since a few top-of-the-line Android smartphones will likely have quad-core processors. They'll say that Apple is way behind the hardware curve.

MAY 31, 2012 12:29 P.M.

Wet Paint wrote:

Apple will introduce the latest 4G LTE technology and it will be bigger and heavier too. How can Samsung compete with that?

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